If they haven`t been paying
attention, they may be in for a disappointment.

Americans have for the past two
decades turned a blind eye toward the usurpation of
manual labor-type jobs by illegal aliens. Many
assumed we would never again need those jobs ourselves
and we could wash our hands of that type of work.
Result: Mexicans
now permanently occupy that entire lower tier of
employment.

Americans historically tended to work
such jobs as stopgaps, then the job rolled over to the
next person in a jam. We called it “upward mobility.”

Mexicans, on the other hand, often
take menial jobs as the first step in their lifelong
careers. They don`t advance and basically
"squat" in the position.

Thus there is little turnover and
thereforefew
opportunities for Americans who have fallen on hard
times to avail themselves of safety-net employment.

And even when openings occur, small
business employment infrastructures—the hiring practices
and people doing the hiring—have become
Mexicanized.

Americans will discover that
Mexicans don`t look for or gain employment in the old
way we used to—the jobs aren`t posted, advertised or
interviewed for.

The market is conducted by personal
contacts, the word passed among friends and relatives.

In some of the small/mid-size
manufacturing firms I call on, those outer waiting rooms
where Americans once filled out applications and waited
for an interview with a personnel director have been put
to other use. They have no legitimate purpose anymore.

When the production manager (himself
often a Mexican immigrant) has an opening, he puts the
word out within the company. The next day, a
fellow worker shows up at the rear employee entrance
with a "cousin"
in tow, vouches for him in ashort
conversation in Spanish, and the deal is done.

Meanwhile the
clueless, newly-unemployed American who puts on aclean shirt dutifully
writes up all this references and is ready to sweat out
an interview is instead told "Sorry, we`re not
hiring."

When laid off in the 1982 recession I
was in a bind—newly
married, no savings, etc.

But that was a different era.
Even with high unemployment it was possible to go to the
warehouse district and round up a menial job stacking
boxes, sweeping floors or hosing out boxcars, etc.
Because I also had experience doing outside electrical
work, I quickly got part-time work digging trenches for
conduits, too.

It wasn`t fun, but it didn`t kill
me and it paid the rent and put food on the table until
I got back on my feet.

I`d hate to be in the position of
trying to find work like that today.

A California Nurse Says Needy Illegal Aliens Depleted Local Food Banks—Just In Time For Thanksgiving!

“The Second Harvest Food
Bank`s Irvine warehouse, usually stacked with canned
food, bottled water and other non-perishable items, is
looking empty and cavernous these days, as demand from
charities working to feed the hungry has surged while
the economy craters.

“Demand
from those member agencies has risen from 20 percent to
70 percent over the past few months as legions of the
working poor and the recently unemployed struggle to
make ends meet.”[Food
Bank Depleted as Holidays Near,by Erika Chavez, OrangeCounty Register,November 25, 2008]

Although the story makes no direct
mention of immigration—when does the
MainStream Media ever report on a negative regarding
aliens?—readers can easily figure out for themselves who
is one of the largest users of food banks.

“His [slain illegal alien
Ecuadorian Marcelo Lucero`s] family had
planned to hold the Mass inside their home, but so many
people showed up, they moved it to the street, where
they set up chairs and a temporary altar. Floodlights
lit the scene.”

Are your readers aware, I wonder, of how rare it is to celebrate a Roman
Catholic Mass outside of a consecrated place?

According to the
rituals and traditions that govern it, “Mass must be
celebrated in a consecrated or blessed Church (private
oratories or even rooms are allowed for special reasons:
see

That would seem to exclude the Lucero home or a “temporary altar”
down the street.

But apparently, a request by an alien family
constitutes a “special reason”

that the Church will eagerly accommodate.

Ford lives in Vermont where is says he follows the alien
crisis with dismay but happily from a distance.

James
Fulford replies:While it sounds like the sort of favor that
radical priests do for those they think of as the
downtrodden (criminals, illegals, terrorist suspects, et
cetera), our reader apparently missed the dateline,

"GUALACEO,

Ecuador." The Luceros aren`t aliens in Ecuador, they`re
right at home there,(a very snug home, built with the
proceeds of crime) and in an "impoverished Andean mountain
city of 20,000 people,"
a
300-person memorial service is probably enough reason to
set up a portable altar.